The media aren't so removed from every other facet of your life when you're on Twitter. It becomes more of a part of it. Amid tweets from friends and celebrities, news organizations and journalists update their followers with recent news, or, in NPR's case, a desire to find the recent news.
LJWorld: Planning an Earth Day party? Take a new poll on LJWorld.com: http://twurl.nl/e3jzvr #ljw
AnnCurry: Obama: "The severity of this recession will cause more job loss, more foreclosures.."
nprnews: Seeking Seattle-area couple, mid-50s, rethinking retirement. For radio story. Must be willing to chat about finances. @ us if interested.
I'm not here to say that Twitter and other social networks will mean I'll read newspapers and news Web sites less. That may be the case for some, but I refuse to only be aware of what's going on in the world in 140-or-less-character snippets, when The New York Times can provide a more captivating and in-depth coverage of the same news in 1,400 words.
But that's not to say I'm against integrating the news into the time I spend on the Internet. If I'm going to spend time connecting with the people I know through sites like Twitter, why not connect with my favorite news sources, too?
And news organizations can benefit from this time of social-networking coverage, whether it be by getting sources or by making a story sound interesting in the five seconds it takes to read a tweet. It's just a matter of being effective -- and attention-grabbing -- in a small amount of time -- and space.
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